“With this landmark bipartisan legislation,
Congress and the president have taken strong action to
prohibit discrimination based on a person’s genetic
makeup and to protect patients’ privacy as they
pursue genetic evaluations,” said America’s
Health Insurance Plans President Karen Ignagni, according
to Business Insurance. “This legislation also
ensures that patients can continue to benefit from health
plans’ innovative early detection and care coordination
programs that improve the safety and quality of
care.”

Business Insurance said a statement issued by the
White House following the signing of the bill quoted
President Bush as saying
the new law “protects our citizens from having genetic
information misused, and this bill does so without
undermining the basic premise of the insurance
industry.”